xiv, 498, [42] pages : 24 cm

(Publisher) This comprehensive, historically organized introduction to philosophy communicates the richness of the discipline and provides the student with a working knowledge of the development of Western philosophy. New co-author James Fieser has brought this classic text up-to-date both chronologically and stylistically while preserving the thoughtful, conceptual characteristics that have made it so successful. The text covers all periods of philosophy, lists philosophers alphabetically and chronologically on the end-papers, and features an exceptional glossary of key concepts

Includes bibliographical references (pages B1-B16) and index

PART ONE: ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY -- 1. Socrates predecessors -- 2. The sophists and Socrates -- 3. Plato -- 4. Aristotle -- PART TWO: HELLENISTIC AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY -- 5. Classical philosophy after Aristotle -- 6. Augustine -- 7. Philosophy in the Early Middle Ages -- 8. Aquinas and his Late Medieval successors -- PART THREE: EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY -- 9. Philosophy during the Renaissance -- 10. Rationalism on the continent -- 11. Empiricism in Britain -- PART FOUR: LATE MODERN AND 19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY -- 1 2. Kant -- 13. German idealism -- 14. Utilitarianism and positivism -- 15. Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche -- PART FIVE: 20TH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY -- 16. Pragmatism and process philosophy -- 17. Analytic philosophy -- 18. Phenomenology and existentialism -- 19. Recent philosophy

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